Tord Romstad
Tord Kallqvist Romstad,
a Norwegian algebraic geometer by education, and as chess and games programmer author of the open source chess programs Glaurung, also available as iPhone chess program and since February 2014 as chess AI of Play Magnus [2], the didactic parallel search engine Viper, the former Gothmog, and the hexagonal chess program Scatha. Tord has also some interests in Shogi programming [3] [4]. In 2009 Tord joint forces with Marco Costalba and Joona Kiiski on Marco's initial branch of Glaurung's evolutionary tree called Stockfish [5]. Tord Romstad further developed various chess programming libraries, most recently the Julia library Chess.jl [6].
Contents
Photos
Winners Chess960CWC 2005: Tord Romstad, Johannes Zwanzger, Volker Böhm and Ralf Schäfer [7]
Forum Posts
2000 ...
- Mixing alpha-beta with PN search by Tord Romstad, CCC, January 18, 2004 » Alpha-Beta, Proof-Number Search
- When to do a null move search - an experiment by Tord Romstad, CCC, April 26, 2004 » Null Move Pruning
- Two questions for bitboard experts by Tord Romstad, Winboard Forum, November 06, 2004 » Bitboards, In Between, Piece-Lists
2005 ...
- Reductions and null move refutations by Tord Romstad, Winboard Forum, April 18, 2005 » Late Move Reductions, Null Move Pruning
- A plea to all computer chess enthusiasts (absurdly long) by Tord Romstad, CCC, February 08, 2006
- Bitboard question by Tord Romstad, Winboard Forum, March 14, 2006 » Bitboards
- Speedup with bitboards on 64-bit CPUs by Tord Romstad, CCC, April 27, 2007
- The Art of Evaluation by Tord Romstad, CCC, August 2, 2007 » Evaluation Philosophy
- SEE problem by Tord Romstad, CCC, April 13, 2008 » Static Exchange Evaluation
- Artificial stupidity - making a program play badly by Tord Romstad, CCC, May 20, 2008
2010 ...
- Revolutionizing handheld chess: Glaurung 2 for the iPhone by Tord Romstad, CCC, July 02, 2010
- Re: Play Magnus: official App with Chess Engine by Tord Romstad, CCC, February 26, 2014 » Play Magnus
- Reactions about AlphaZero from top GMs... by Norman Schmidt, CCC, December 08, 2017 » Reactions From Top GMs, Stockfish Author
- Re: World Computer Chess Championship by Tord Romstad, CCC, February 28, 2018 » World Computer Chess Championship
2020 ...
- Re: Bit Board Orientation by Tord Romstad, CCC, October 06, 2020 » Square Mapping Considerations
- Re: Which of the many chess engines in this forum use b strategy ? by Tord Romstad, CCC, October 08, 2020 » Type B Strategy
- Chess.jl – new version by Tord Romstad, CCC, April 30, 2021
External Links
- Stockfish Chess Engine Home
- romstad (Tord Romstad) · GitHub
- Home · Chess.jl
- Computerschach, Interview with Tord Romstad (Norway), Joona Kiiski (Finland) and Marco Costalba (Italy) by Frank Quisinsky, March 29, 2010
- Parallelism and Selectivity in Game Tree Search by Tord Romstad, TNG | Big Techday 8, June 12, 2015, YouTube Video [8]
- How Modern Chess Programs Work by Tord Romstad, Vimeo Video
References
- ↑ Tord Romstad during World Chess Championship 2014 in Norwegian TV, Capture from German ZDF Sportreportage, November 23, 2014, with excerpts from the broadcast
- ↑ Re: Play Magnus: official App with Chess Engine by Tord Romstad, CCC, February 26, 2014
- ↑ Some thoughts on computer Shogi by Tord Romstad, January 15, 2007
- ↑ The Universal Shogi Interface, draft 1 (2007-01-24)
- ↑ Re: Stockfish - Glaurung by Tord Romstad, WBEC-Ridderkerk forum, September 05, 2009
- ↑ Home · Chess.jl
- ↑ Aronian gewinnt FINet-Chess960-Turnier, ChessBase Nachrichten, August 13, 2005 (German)
- ↑ Re: Video : How do modern chess engines work ? by Hermann Krause, CCC, April 12, 2016
